New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-03-20
THE MIND. HEALER.
A VILLAGE EPISODE.

RArsoME, Mass, March 19.-This place has beer
almost in a comatose state through the winter. No
| body has died. nobody has married. AS our butcher
said to me while he dejeotedy weighed piece OF meat
There amt teller courted no girl, through
all these long weary weeks. The snow has fallen and
track has been broken; the snow has melted and We
have waded through the slush. Thus We have
| alternated from the one misery to the other.
But In latter part of February we saw bluebirds;
and the first week in March the maSnfe N woman
Cured since Mrs. Holland spraned her shoulder In
the tall mentioned together not because they
| were sim ar but for chronological reasons
II Won have ever spent winter deep In the secuson
of New Engla country town, you VIII understand
the thrill OF surprised Joy Mca aone tb. hare
| tree branches you we'll know how that BIRDS hrst
call liquid aud clear. makes warmth and 10Y and sun
| light seom possible to the world again.
| II was last week that Mrs Holland came In, very
much excited and iremuous. to ask II we knew there
was a womsn in Farnham who had como OUT from
Boston who could cure folks by their minds She was
coming up to Mill Village in few days to give treat
ment to Thodor Mtvin's' daughter who had had the
st yitus dance since she ten Years old Thodor.
lie it under stood the proper way to pronounce Iheo
4 dvre in this place. - ., =,
Now Thodor Melvin and his fnmily are people OF
sone Intellect and cultivation aud are therefore rather
looked down upon by the average inhaoitant OF Kan
| some. ,,,...-. -
left dish washing and sweeping anu ie' 'n"S VIZ -nuS'
She doa'r give no medicines. rubbins, nor moth
in
treatment and nothln else that lures folks And the
treatment is all on the mind" .., - A..
"Then,' said my sister lightly, "tbo very first
! requisite toward cure Is to have mind ,
wall. you know, that's what we've all GOT said
Mrs. Holland. seriously. , -,
We felt that caller was not the person VINO couiu
hest explain TO the principles OF the mind cure, OF
which We were beginnug 10 read IN the newspaper
but the temptation TO question her was great. IL
! transpired that Deacon Hawkins in the process OF
peddlng fish, had that morning stopped at Mira Ho.
lands and while making sale OF paddock, had told
her OF the from Boston, supposed to be at THIS
moment in Farnham and hourly expected al Aili VIZ
Tor" said Mrs. Holland. with the superior air Of
one who is not creduous, don't believe hotbn in It,
What do We think she giycs treatment Tor quarren!
! That's what tue Deacon said. He told me with his
own lips that there family in Farnham AS fowf so
among themselves that friend sent word TO this
woman 10 have EN- treated for harmony thought be
meant an origin, instrument but taint So
Mrs Holland INDUCED in silent shaking laughter as
soon she could speak she reated That The Deacon
said that he had done good many things that he had
not meant to do, but 1t he and bis wife disagreed he
did think he wouldn't be treated Tor harmony. lie
would 60 as fur as to say he did think that
| Not long after this interview We went to an
apron and tic party held at tie Baptist vostry
Mrs dnoaor mos ~H Ted ohout the much ryc5
In the spring aud tall 10 having cruptons on her lace
and hands. These eruptions abe naturally speaks vi
| AS her bumor. aud she In usually OF forenoon
stepping yellow dock -root and goldthread on the
cook stove She has bceu The mother OF many children,
4 all of whom save LaYinla. have diOd. suecum bling
eusily to diseases which other children recover from
| In the midst OF great dscouragemens Mrs. Melvin
has retained liking Tor books and has kept the power
! to speak grammaiioally. She may he little senti-
mental and is certainly great deal misunderstood
She WAS eager TO tell about the woman from Bos-
ton She was orynced that she already symptoms
OF improvement in Lnvina, although the girl had re-
| eeIvrd but one treatment
| " What are the ucatmentsi" asked
She besitated. Why. they sre-weu, they are Just
| treatments, you know" sue answered conprehen-
| sivey. They don't seem TO be anything. She doesn
| do anything az know"
| "She asks for money. doesn't she !" inquired.
| "She has 81 a visit. She takes high ground, you
| know. She wishes TO enter into the thought
| From this point MIS- MelyIns tired face became
flushed, she went in that glib way which char
! acterzes the speech OF one who has just been
| 40 enter into the thought she repeated. having
found her cue TAKE the ground that you cannot be
| harmed. You cannot hurt sunbeam God made II
| God made you ana you cannot be hurt .
! This reasoning was star tlinsy cogent, and we lis
| tened ntenily. She went on:
| You must live in the new thought, not IN the old
one. that there IL such thing q. disease GU can
come no harm. Tor you are hid with God Now.
when the healer came II was raining heavily Tho hrsi
thing she said was that, as she lived in the thought
she could not take Gold She informed that in this
way she could sit in iraught aud not he chilled. She
treats tor illness in this First assume that what
you have thought was pain Il but n shacow thrown
by some pctureOn the mind Ii sho can find the night
| picture she can remove II, ana you arc wen oi
rather you believe you well, which Il exactly the
| same thing. For instance. she treated woman
whose ewes had been Affected since dreadful
pcience In voyage, when the steamer had
burned and tho patient had watched its destruction
IRON n boat. This picture of burning ship was what
she tired 10 obiiterae, but the womans eyes remained
the same At last she discovered that all this dread al
time the patient had been think ny OF her daughter
and mot Of tho ship This made all tho difference
Treatment instantly begun to remove this picture
OF the daughter, and the eyes became we'll You see
how clear IT all 10" looking at Us rather wstiuily
| We FASTENED 70 say that perhaps 1t might become
| clear when we had heard little more.
The picture which makes the shadow may have
been formed years ago BY something entirely unsns
pec.od The healer has just cured herself OF enlarged
tonsils which have troubled her TOR years Her mother
used TO be very severe with her when as child she
misbehayed. She was told OF hcll-Gre. and made Ia
read story about girl being burned to death
Finally one night the healer treated herset under
her maiden name, for that picture OF her punishment
and her throst Immediately began to improve and now
ia well. When you look into tho subject you lind
| everything becomes quite PLAIN
Mrs Melvin took the last stitches in necktle that
| was 20 match an apron was making.
IL seems to me-" said my sister. that the main
difficulty In this method OF curing is the choosing tho
right picture. | should say great embarrassment
would arise there. wonder" che said questioningy
dit my annual hay fever may not be the shadow PRO
jected the fright got when was eight years old
and fell 10 to hole IN the Ice on the mil pond II
am treated shall suggest that that picture be
| removed"
A shade came over Mrs Mel Wins face rs she heard
those words. though they were spoken Ia apparent
| seriousness
"Tho whole idea is beautiful It seems to mo-" she
said as II arguing TO herself. "The healer cannot
again for fortnight bur she LETT few thoughts
| for my girl until her next visit
She took paper from her pocket ana gave II 10 me-
| bold hand had filled the sheet with detached sen.
| fences | read some OF them:
Pour in truth through the food gates of thought"
1Trust In the Lord forever"
1.-THE unfolding OF the bud Ia like ourselves unfold
| ing TO the truth"
Lot your anchor OF hope be fastened to the heart OF
| God"
Lot 60 the shadows hold on the truth"
| These we're for reading and pondorng by the victim
OF st. Vitus dance. lhoy certainly good in them
selves and we have only TO wait and soc what effect
| they have on the girl who is afflicted.
| Mrs. Holland walked home With u.s. She said Il
Hwasnt in that there could be nothin' in IL ;